Hester Street

Overview

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver

Top cast

Steven Keats

Jake

Carol Kane

Gitl

M

Mel Howard

Bernstein

D

Dorrie Kavanaugh

Mamie

Doris Roberts

Mrs. Kavarsky

Stephen Strimpell

Joe Peltner

L

Lauren Friedman

Fanny

P

Paul Freedman

Joey

Martin Garner

Boss

L

Leib Lensky

Peddler

Z

Zane Lasky

Greenhorn

Zvee Scooler

Rabbi

Eda Reiss Merin

Rabbi's Wife

Robert Lesser

Lawyer

Joanna Merlin

Jake's Landlady

C

Claudia Silver

Feigie

E

Ed Crowley

Inspector

Philip Sterling

Mr. Lipman

Sol Frieder

Scribe

J

Joel Wolfe

Kaminsky

Details